William Cole (c.1530 - 1600), was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire. He studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 28th July 1545, graduating BA in March 1548 and MA in 1552. Events January January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Years Day February February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned in a stake for heresy July July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert in a battle on the coastal dunes. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England, traditionally the second largest after Yorkshire. ... Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Events February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victory over superior English forces December 13 - Official opening of the Council of Trent (closed 1563) Births April 2 - Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (d. ...

When Mary Tudor became Queen in 1553, Cole was one of the many English Protestants who went into exile on the continent to escape persecution. Early in 1554, with Robert Horne and his wife, James Pilkington, Thomas Lever, Thomas Bentham, Thomas Spencer, and Laurence Humphrey, amongst others, Cole petitioned the Zürich magistrates for permission to live there and be protected from harrasment from English agents. Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon This article is about Mary Tudor, queen consort of France. ...

By 1556, Cole had migrated to Frankfurt. With John Foxe he seems to have moved on to Basel during the winter of 1556–7, but on 5 June 1557 was accepted into John Knox's congregation in Geneva. Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth largest city in Germany. ... John Foxe, line engraving by George Glover, first published in the 1641 edition of Actes and Monuments John Foxe (1516 - April 8, 1587) is remembered as the author of the famous Foxes Book of Martyrs. ... Basel (English traditionally: Basle [ba:l], German: Basel [ba:z@l], French Bâle [ba:l], Italian Basilea [bazilE:a]) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate... John Knox (1513 or 1514? to 1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who founded the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. ... Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman, but the Genevois are fond of calling it Lac de Genève) empties into the Rhône River. ...

During 1558 Cole assisted in the translation of the Geneva Bible. The Geneva Bible was a Protestant translation of the Holy Bible into English. ...

In 1568, at the recommendation of Robert Horne, now Bishop of Winchester and therefore ex-officio college's visitor, Elizabeth nominated Cole to the presidency of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The senior fellows, still conservative in their approach to Elizabeth's settlement, had no wish to have a married president imposed upon them, and when Cole arrived to take formal possession the doors were closed against him. It was necessary to obtain a royal commission, dated 21 July 1568, to secure his admission. The diocese of Winchester is one of the oldest and most important in England. ... Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...

During 1577 he served as Vice-Chancellor of the University, and by letters patent dated 17 May 1577 he succeeded John Aylmer, elevated to the bishopric of London, as archdeacon of Lincoln. Letters Patent by Queen Victoria creating office of Governor-General of Australia Letters patent are a type of legal document which is an open letter issued by a monarch or government granting a right, monopoly, title, or status to someone or some entity such as a corporation. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Lincoln (pronounced Ling-kun) is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England, a bridging point over the River Witham, which flows to Boston. ...

In 1598, when Whitgift wished to encourage John Rainolds, dean of Lincoln, to continue his writings against the Jesuits by returning him to Oxford, Cole agreed to resign his presidency in exchange for the deanery. Whitgift successfully petitioned Sir Robert Cecil in September, describing Cole as ‘an ancient Doctor of Divinity and an honest, learned and grave man’ and the exchange as ‘greatly for the benefit of the church, and for God's’. John Rainolds (or Reynolds) (1549 - May 21, 1607), English divine, was born about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near Exeter. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (June 1, 1563 -May 24, 1612), son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and half-brother of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, statesman, spymaster and minister to Elizabeth I of England and James I of England. ...